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Doctor Heavysterne from the Low Countries, had sustained much injury by sitting down suddenly and incautiously on three ancient calthrops, or craw-taes, which had been lately dug up in the bog near Bannockburn, and which, dispersed by Robert Bruce to lacerate the feet of the English chargers, came thus in process of time to endamage the sitting part of a learned professor of Utrecht.
Doctor Heavysterne from the Low Countries, had sustained much injury by sitting down suddenly and incautiously on three ancient calthrops, or craw-taes, which had been lately dug up in the bog near Bannockburn, and which, dispersed by Robert Bruce to lacerate the feet of the English chargers, came thus in process of time to endamage the sitting part of a learned professor of Utrecht.
"O brother! brother! but Dr. Heavysterne, brother whose sleep was so sore broken, that he declared he wadna pass another night in the Green Room to get all Monkbarns, so that Mary and I were forced to yield our" "Why, Grizel, the doctor is a good, honest, pudding-headed German, of much merit in his own way, but fond of the mystical, like many of his countrymen.
"Why, what's the matter now? are there not beds and rooms enough in the house? was it not an ancient hospitium, in which, I am warranted to say, beds were nightly made down for a score of pilgrims?" "Is there not the Green Room, Grizel?" "Troth is there, and it is in decent order too, though naebody has sleepit there since Dr. Heavysterne, and" "And what?" "And what!
Why, 'tis an adventure, man, to sleep in the Green Room at Monkbarns. Sister, pray see it got ready And, although the bold adventurer, Heavysterne, dree'd pain and dolour in that charmed apartment, it is no reason why a gallant knight like you, nearly twice as tall, and not half so heavy, should not encounter and break the spell." "What! a haunted apartment, I suppose?"
"Why, what's the matter now? are there not beds and rooms enough in the house? was it not an ancient hospitium, in which, I am warranted to say, beds were nightly made down for a score of pilgrims?" "Is there not the Green Room, Grizel?" "Troth is there, and it is in decent order too, though naebody has sleepit there since Dr. Heavysterne, and" "And what?" "And what!
"O brother! brother! but Dr. Heavysterne, brother whose sleep was so sore broken, that he declared he wadna pass another night in the Green Room to get all Monkbarns, so that Mary and I were forced to yield our" "Why, Grizel, the doctor is a good, honest, pudding-headed German, of much merit in his own way, but fond of the mystical, like many of his countrymen.
Why, 'tis an adventure, man, to sleep in the Green Room at Monkbarns. Sister, pray see it got ready And, although the bold adventurer, Heavysterne, dree'd pain and dolour in that charmed apartment, it is no reason why a gallant knight like you, nearly twice as tall, and not half so heavy, should not encounter and break the spell." "What! a haunted apartment, I suppose?"
Heavysterne or his Honor Littleton Coke, but it is, "Who knows where Hockey Jones is?" and "Did Dandy Glover really die in India?" and "Let us go and call upon Old Sykes" or "Old Roots" or "Old Conic-Sections," thus meaning to designate Professor , LL.D., A.A.S., F.R.S., etc. A college president who had no nickname would prove himself, ipso facto, unfit for his post.
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